The Surprise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEE FGFGHHIIEE JKJKLLMMEE| As there I left the road in May | A |
| And took my way along a ground | B |
| I found a glade with girls at play | A |
| By leafy boughs close hemmed around | B |
| And there with stores of harmless joys | C |
| They plied their tongues in merry noise | C |
| Though little did they seem to fear | D |
| So queer a stranger might be near | D |
| Teeh hee Look here Hah ha Look there | E |
| And oh so playsome oh so fair | E |
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| And one would dance as one would spring | F |
| Or bob or bow with leering smiles | G |
| And one would swing or sit and sing | F |
| Or sew a stitch or two at whiles | G |
| And one skipped on with downcast face | H |
| All heedless to my very place | H |
| And there in fright with one foot out | I |
| Made one dead step and turned about | I |
| Heeh hee oh oh ooh oo Look there | E |
| And oh so playsome oh so fair | E |
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| Away they scampered all full speed | J |
| By boughs that swung along their track | K |
| As rabbits out of wood at feed | J |
| At sight of men all scamper back | K |
| And one pulled on behind her heel | L |
| A thread of cotton off her reel | L |
| And oh to follow that white clue | M |
| I felt I fain could scamper too | M |
| Teeh hee run here Eeh ee Look there | E |
| And oh so playsome oh so fair | E |
Ingeborg Bachmann
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